Partisans of the Nude: An Arab Art Genre in an Era of Contest, 1920—1960
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Jessica Campbell: Heterodoxy
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2023 James and Audrey Foster Prize Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston Aug 24, 2023 – Jan 28, 2024
by Michelle Kelley Established in 1999, the James and Audrey Foster Prize is biennially awarded to working artists based in the Boston area. The recognized artists for the 2023 James and Audrey Foster Prize exhibition at the ICA/Boston—Venetia Dale, Cicely Carew, and Yu-Wen Wu—are three artists who share a common thread: their commitment to innovative […]
“Philip Guston Now”
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston May 1–September 11, 2022 by Ateret Sultan-Reisler Philip Guston (1913–1980) responded to events witnessed in person and print through painting. Guston’s The Tormentors (1947–1948), an enigmatic rectangle of cadmium red and ink black overlaid with thin organic forms, requires further interpretation. The title hints at the artist’s explained reaction to […]
“Taylor Davis Selects: Invisible Ground of Sympathy”
Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston January 31, 2023–January 7, 2024 by Theodora Bocanegra Lang What the deaf see is what seers hear. A place of emptiness makes sense to those of us who stand in the door. – Fanny Howe, At Seaport: 2023 (2023) The title of Invisible Ground of Sympathy, now open at […]
SIREN (some poetics)
Amant, Brooklyn, NY September 15, 2022–March 5, 2023 by Farren Fei Yuan The exhibition SIREN (some poetics) that was unveiled this fall at Amant in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn offers an evocative experience that dissolves the boundaries in sensory perception and artistic media. As such, it posits an alternative to the proliferation of Instagram-ready exhibitions that […]
Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition
Museum of Modern Art, New York October 30, 2022–March 4, 2023 by Katherine Gregory Upon hearing the name Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985, Germany), any person who has taken an introductory art history course will picture her fur-covered cup Le Déjuner en Fourrure (1936) (fig. 1). This sculpture has come to stand for Oppenheim’s entire oeuvre and, […]
Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matter(s)
The Shed, New York, NY February 11–April 17, 2022 by Sarah-Rose Hansen Over the course of the eight galleries in Tomás Saraceno’s Particular Matter(s) exhibition, which was on view through mid-April at The Shed in midtown Manhattan, three separate moments introduce lighting shifts that are likely to cause the viewer to pause for pupillary adaptation. […]
White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA March 4–July 31, 2022 by Renée Brown In 1964 German artist Anneliese Hager (1904–1997) published a book of her poems and photograms entitled Weiße Schatten (White Shadows). Released in an edition of fifty-five, each volume has a unique cover featuring a full-bleed photogram by Hager (fig. 1). The layered black […]
Glenn Kaino: In the Light of a Shadow
MASS MoCA April 4, 2021–September 5, 2022 by Max Gruber Viewers were led by gallery attendants into a vast hall shrouded in darkness. A grave silence coated the space, broken only by anticipatory coughing, shuffling, and the knowledge that the resonant sound of Glenn Kaino’s installation was about to begin. Short, brilliant infusions of light […]